> His novel is not so much an attempt to break away from that world — he loves investing and working with entrepreneurs, he says — as it is an opportunity to skewer it.
He started a crypto company and then took a father-sponsored investing job. He's done nothing to show he has the appropriate perspective to do more than lightly self-flagellate himself and his friends.
When asked about his responsibilities as an investor:
> “I just do the best I can to be like, I really like this opportunity. I think this could be really cool, and a positive thing, and really fun to work on,’’ he says. “But yes, if I backed a company that turned out to, like, cause horrible harm for people and tons of negative effects, I’d feel fucking terrible.”
Oh he'd _feel_ terrible. Well good, I thought for a second there wouldn't be appropriate consequences.
What an airhead.
I don't know anything about the elder Breyer, but this book promotion looks like a great promotion of massive inheritance taxes.